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Well this post is a bit late as I have had the "Who Box" as I call it completed for a while. It was recently asked if I was going to finish and/or post the final project. I was pretty happy with how it came out only a few minor things that I wish I could have done slightly different or cleaner but what can you do. To pick up where the last post left off. I decided to mount the Pi on the bottom

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Well I have more parts for building the Tardis now. Could have enough to finish the build if everything goes to plan. We now have a wall plate with RCA & HDMI. Although the primary use will be RCA it was brought to my attention to "future proof" it and add an HDMI connection now during the initial build. So the plan to attach the new wall plate was at first to cut the top and bottom plastic

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So I have become very interested in Raspberry Pi's as of late and have a few projects I want to do lined up. The first of which is a media center built into a Doctor Who Tardis for a family member who likes Doctor Who. I personally do not know much about the show other than it has this police box and I assume there is a character named Doctor Who. I started the project off searching for the

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So in an effort to find a way to run XBMC on my NES Media PC box, without a keyboard and mouse. I came across Flirc. It's not an actual remote but a USB IR receiver device. The device is about the size of a thumb and is pretty easy to setup. I had a little trouble setting it up in Linux but since you can set it up on any PC I set it up on my Windows 7 PC. Then just plug it into the Linux box and

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Well putting an optical drive inside of the NES has kind of become a side project all it's own because it is not really "necessary" to run the box but does make for a nice addition. I guess to get started I will list what I used not only the drive but the parts as well. LG (CT21N) Slim Blu-Ray  I chose this drive for a couple of reasons. One is that it is slim and that is required because

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So we last left off with an all but finished HTPC built into an original NES game console case. The next step is to load up the software you want to run. A few things to take into consideration are what you want to do with the PC. For me I wanted to be able to at least do the following: Have a "media center" program to launch any/all movies Be able to play emulators Be able to add further video

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OK so after breaking down the original NES and rewiring the buttons and scraping the money together for some of the parts, its time to move onto the next phase. Which is to start to fit the PC components into the NES. The main focus is the motherboard because without it you wont be able to do much and it takes the most space. Again my motherboard of choice was the Zotac A-U Atom N330. After

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After acquiring an old NES game console off of eBay I set out to strip it down to its bare parts to see what I was dealing with. The NES was in decent shape externally not bright yellow but also not functioning but that was OK. The first step is to open the NES up and start to remove the NES components inside. A lot of metal shielding and large 80s style PC parts are stacked up on each other

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As a nerdy PC user I sometimes find myself surfing the net for the latest and greatest PC parts as well as creative/crazy designs by other people. One day I came across PCs put into old video game console shells. One in particular that caught my eye was a Media Center PC put into a old Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). I set upon making my own NES PC with a few goals in mind. Keep the look

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